Conspiracies Beget Conspiracies
Hi,
Let’s start with some history.
It was on this day in 1954 that Army lawyer Joseph Welch asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy, “Have you left no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”
The moral of the story—recounted by TV pundits, high school civics teachers, and Hollywood scriptwriters—is that shame and decency prevailed when one brave man spoke truth to power.
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